You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.
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You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.
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Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.
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And ye shall not wrong one another; but thou shalt fear thy God; for I am the LORD your God.
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- Leviticus 19:14 “ ‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
- Leviticus 19:32 “ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
- Exodus 20:20 Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won’t sin.”
- Leviticus 25:43 You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.
- Genesis 42:18 Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.
- Genesis 20:11 Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’
- Genesis 22:12 He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
- Genesis 39:9 No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”
- Leviticus 25:14 “ ‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.
- Deuteronomy 25:18 how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God.
- 1 Samuel 12:24 Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.
- 2 Chronicles 19:7 Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”
- Nehemiah 5:9 Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
- Nehemiah 5:15 But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.
- Psalms 19:9 The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
- Proverbs 1:7 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
- Proverbs 22:22 Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;
- Jeremiah 7:5-6 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt;
- Jeremiah 22:16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so it was well, then. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.
- Malachi 3:5 I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
- Luke 12:5 But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
- Acts 9:31 So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
- Acts 10:2 a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.
- Acts 10:35 but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
- Romans 3:18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
- Romans 11:20 True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;
- 1 Thessalonians 4:6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 25:17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another;…
Lev 25:17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I [am] the LORD your God.
Ver. 17. But thou shalt fear thy God.] And so depart from this evil also. {Gen 42:18} Joseph said to his brethren, who feared he would roll himself upon them, "This do and live, for I fear God," q.d., I dare do you no hurt, though ye be fallen into my danger. So his grandfather Isaac, seeing that he had done unwilling justice, durst not reverse the blessing, though he had some mind to it, for God had overawed him. {Gen 27:33} And "ought ye not to have walked in the fear of the Lord?" said good Nehemiah to those merciless griping usurers. {Neh 5:10}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Ye shall not therefore oppress one another,.... By over…
Ye shall not therefore oppress one another,.... By over or underrating estates:
but thou shalt fear thy God; and the fear of God being before their eyes, and on their hearts, would preserve both buyer and seller from doing an ill thing, when it was in the power of either, through the necessity of the one, or the ignorance of the other, see Neh 5:15,
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for I am the Lord your God; omniscient, and knows all that is done in the most private and artful manner; and omnipotent and able to punish both, which of them either should oppress or defraud, see Th1 4:6.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Ye shall not oppress one another, but thou shalt…
Ye shall not oppress one another, but thou shalt fear thy God--This, which is the same as Lev 25:14, related to the sale or purchase of possessions and the duty of paying an honest and equitable regard, on both sides, to the limited period during which the bargain could stand. The object of the legislator was, as far as possible, to maintain the original order of families, and an equality of condition among the people.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 17. Thou shalt fear thy God — The Hebrew…
17. Thou shalt fear thy God — The Hebrew religion was eminently ethical as well as devotional; it was designed for the market and the forum, to preside over trade and social intercourse, to restrain avarice and protect poverty. This element of Mosaism is incorporated by Jesus Christ into his Gospel in the golden rule.
For I am the Lord — This is the perpetual watchword of the old covenant, and the ground of its obligation.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 17. Summary, together with the guiding motive characteristic of…
17. Summary, together with the guiding motive characteristic of H.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (17) Ye shall not therefore oppress one another.—Better, And…
(17) Ye shall not therefore oppress one another.—Better, And ye shall not overreach any man his neighbour. (See Lev_25:14.)
But thou shalt fear thy God—who pleads the cause of the oppressed, and avenges every injustice. (See Lev_19:14.)
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain (See Scofield "Psa 19:9").
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(See Scofield "Psa 19:9").
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